Les Misérables: There will never be anything better.... — Page 2

#26

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:23pm

one of my favorites!

I do believe that it is quite well written, and remember thinking so when i saw it for the first time on broadway.



...however, when i saw it on broadway, i was only 9! :)

#27

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:26pm

WOW-jmac!*wolf whistle*

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David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

#28

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:29pm

AWWWW, shucks you guys!

Now you can uderstand why the towel fell off of me while I was performing and, naturally, I didn't have anything on underneath it.

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#29

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:31pm

Now you can understand why I'm going to give you the silent treatment until someone gifts me with cleave like THAT!

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"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

#30

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:38pm

*sniff* *sniff*

My bf won't like this very much.

Now, back to the GREATEST SHOW IN THE WORLD...

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#31

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:55pm

Type_A_Tiff, I meant flegmmy. Maybe cottage cheese would have been a better choice. No, I'm not a sushi lover, although once I ate a fish egg! And seaweed is in tons of stuff! Like ice cream and gummy bears!!

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What is it about Lucy?? I know she's a bitch, and yet I want to be her...

#32

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:56pm

Ew - seaweed in ice cream? *gag*


Oh right, topic. Hmm...well, to anyone who's seen the tour and the Broadway production, how is the set different?

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"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

#33

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 7:59pm

The tour set is smaller and the Barricade/city streets are less intricate.

The gates of rue Plumet are the same.

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#34

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:12pm

No, don't led the Les Mis thread die!

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#35

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:18pm

Colm's pop take on the music drives me nuts. I've seen it three times and I've cried every time, and I'm going again!

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"It's our time, breathe it in, worlds to change and worlds to win. Our turn, coming through. Me and you, pal, me and you!" -Merrily We Roll Along

#36

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:18pm

I'm gonna get smacked for saying this. Movie musical casting!

Valjean: Sean Bean
Javert: Russell Crowe
Marius: Orlando Bloom
Eponine: me, ha!
Cosette: Rose Byrne
Fantine: Kate Winslet
Enjorlas: Jude Law
Thenarider: Jim Broadbent
M. Thenardier: Julie Walters
Gavroche: Freddie Highmore

#37

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:18pm

Those gates at the Rue Plumet...I remember that that was my little sister's favorite part of the show. She was really little, and the revolving stage fascinated her.

Through the eyes of a child, eh?

I love them too. I wish I'd gotten the chance to see it on Broadway, but...c'est la vie, non?

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"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks --- --- Intolerant of intolerance.

#38

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:20pm

non --> n'est-ce pas

Sorry, Lael

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#39

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:24pm

I love this thread! Any thread that says good things about Les Mis is a good thread. I would be happy seeing Les Mis every day for the rest of my life. I ADORE it. It is my musical to end all musicals. It satisfies just the right part of my heart.

#40

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:26pm

How can any thread say something bad about Les Mis?

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#41

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:28pm

*shrug* Eh, I don't speak French. I wish I did! I FINALLY get to take it next semester! Stupid high school in the middle of stupid nowhere, not offering French...

To share: Although no longer, I was once *gasp* one of the biggest fangirls to ever walk the planet. I had a brain, which was unusual, but nonetheless I was a fangirl, and my "wicked" was Les Miz. I actually am able to read the book in French, and understand it almost perfectly, despite my complete ignorance of the language, merely because I've read it in English so many times. Yeah. The whole thing. I can read it. Wow, sad.

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"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks --- --- Intolerant of intolerance.

#42

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:30pm

Will there ever be anything better?

There already is.
Re: SWEENEY TODD, SITPWG


That's not to say LES MISERABLES doesn't have its moments.
Its a beautiful score and certainly better than most of the "British super-musicals" of the '80s and early '90s and tons better than any of ALW's stuff, except perhaps EVITA.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#43

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:36pm

there are only a few shows that have enveloped me so completely that i felt totally under it's spell, and LES MIS is definitely one of them! (CHORUS LINE being another.)

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RIP glebby <3

#44

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:39pm

YAY,

I love non Wicked posts!

And I love posts about Les Mis!

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#45

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:42pm

Aaaahh, it feel so good! At last count, there were fourteen threads on the main page with "Wicked" "Idina" or "Elphaba" in the title...CRINGE!

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"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks --- --- Intolerant of intolerance.

#46

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:45pm

I feel bad.

The WICKED threads stay up top and mulitply.

While The All-Sondheim thread is already on the second page.

Sigh...

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#47

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:46pm

BOUBLIL ET SHONDERBERG

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#48

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 9:25pm

Jmaclover, thank you for this marvelous thread! Les Mis is my absolute favorite! In honor of it, I just popped my Les Mis OFC into my CD player. Michel Sardou... *le sigh*

#49

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Posted: 12/5/04 at 9:29pm

YAY

Well, thats why Michel is on my best enjolras list!

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"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

#50

re: Les Misérables: There will never be anything better....

Posted: 12/5/04 at 9:39pm

Yes, Les Miz is definitely one of the most quality shows ever written for the stage.

But perfection? It does succeed in everything it aims to do, I am just not sure if I care about its aims.

I dunno. I can see what everyone loves about it, definitely! I just can't reach the loving point, some moments seem kind of sterile to me.

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"Yesterday is done. See the pretty countryside. Merrily we roll along, roll along- catching at dreams."- Merrily we roll along "The living was the prize, the ending's not the story."- Elegies, a song cycle